Powerful Learning eCourses

FREE Do It Yourself Web 2.0 Tools eCourse

We are now excited to offer a two-week Do It Yourself Web 2.0 Tools eCourse for FREE! Sign up and you’ll receive an email every day for two weeks with a Web 2.0 tool activity. At the end of the eCourse, you’ll be well on your way to being a Web 2.0 tools master and developing your personal learning network. Sign up here.

Next class starts: Tomorrow! Sign up anytime.

21st Century-ize Your Curriculum

So you’re convinced that you need to shift your classroom practice to leverage Web 2.0 tools as a powerful learning strategy. But how do you actually do it? In the 21st Century-ize Your Curriculum eCourse, you’ll learn just that. Learn more

Next class starts March 26, 2012

School Communications Toolkit for School Leaders

As technology expands daily, today’s school leaders have a wide array of new communications options at their fingertips. As we explore 21^st Century Skills, ISTE’s NETS for Administrators (NETS•A), Web 2.0 Tools and more, we will discuss how to collaborate and communicate as 21^st Century Leaders both in our school communities and beyond.  Come and learn how you can master 21st Century Leader communications tools and strategies in the School Communications Toolkit for School Leaders eCourse. Learn more

Next class starts March 26, 2012

Connected Coaching

The use of coaches to assist educators in becoming more accomplished and subsequently improving student achievement occurs frequently in face to face settings. To meet the needs of today’s connected educators, coaching should also move into online spaces. The Connected Coaching eCourse will prepare you to coach in online spaces, to leverage the affordances of technology for coaching. Learn more

Next class starts May 7, 2012

Leading Edge Boot Camp

If you are a superintendent, principal, or educational leader you know that your students are using the Web, mobile technologies, and other tools to connect and create social networks. But do you also recognize their transformative potential for learning?

Tackle these questions and challenges with Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and Will Richardson at Powerful Learning Practice’s Leading Edge Boot Camp eCourse. This 5-week, practical eCourse is for school leaders who want to understand how 21st Century technologies are challenging curriculum and pedagogy and providing economical new ways for learning. Learn more

Next class starts March 26, 2012

Teaching Online: Becoming a connected educator

Learning today takes place anywhere and anytime. To meet the needs of today’s connected learner, today’s educator needs to be fluent in new media literacies. The Teaching Online: Becoming a Connected Educator eCourse will prepare you to be an online professor, teach online courses in blended environments such as a virtual school, or teaching blended courses in traditional settings. Learn more

Next class starts May 7, 2012

Transformation, One Lesson At A Time

Have you decided you want a change in your curriculum and don’t know where to start? Or feel overwhelmed by all of the new ideas out there? This course will help you start small and integrate 21st Century concepts into one lesson or activity. Learn more

Ongoing now

Project-Based Writing

“If it doesn’t exist outside of school, then it isn’t worthy enough to be taught within school.”

Project-Based Writing is an ecourse that focuses on this mantra and the methods that teachers can use to follow through with its promise. Writing is universal, and all subject areas can integrate the different genres in authentic ways to make their content more meaningful.

In this 6-week program, participants will be given examples of project-based writing units across the disciplines, and will be given the opportunity to develop their own unit, receive feedback, and share with others, walking away with multiple units that can be utilized in their classroom both Someday and Monday. Learn more

Ongoing now